# Two days without the Dope--the pain, the pain!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 19, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662 "2002-09-19T23:40:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/1 "2002-09-19T23:40:49Z")
…we’re back! :::runs in, breathless::::
Man, that was painful. I actually had to pay attention in class!
Anyway, looks like I’m one of the first ones back…check in here and let me know you’re alive!
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### Author:  [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/2 "2002-09-19T23:41:45Z")
Yup
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/3 "2002-09-19T23:44:29Z")
Don’t tell me all the old posts are eaten?
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/4 "2002-09-19T23:44:44Z")
Howdy.
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### Author:  [@Spooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooky)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/5 "2002-09-19T23:46:03Z")
Well, I’ll be go to hell!..
I thought it would take weeks to get back on.
Nice to be back!
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### Author:  [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/6 "2002-09-19T23:46:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by pugluvr \*
> \*\*Don’t tell me all the old posts are eaten? \*\*
They’re still there. You’re just not seeing the because they’re all over a day old.
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### Author:  [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/7 "2002-09-19T23:49:52Z")
Ah, that’s better.
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### Author:  [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/8 "2002-09-19T23:50:40Z")
Unless…the hamsters got REALLY hungry.
**TalkingHead** is having problems posting still, so maybe they’re stealth hamsters now…
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### Author:  [@TalkingHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TalkingHead)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/9 "2002-09-19T23:52:33Z")
Don’t let **Res** fool you into believeing that he was paying attention in class because the boards were done… We’ve found new ways to distract ourselves in class… like playing buzzword Bingo and the infinite time drain of instant messenging!!!
🙂
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### Author:  [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/10 "2002-09-19T23:55:09Z")
Sigh. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/11 "2002-09-19T23:55:20Z")
Last night, after midnight Pacific time, I got an e-mail notification about the “Something’s-messed-up” thread.
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### Author:  [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/12 "2002-09-19T23:56:45Z")
I had a couple day’s worth of posts eaten. Sigh. So now my count is only a hundred or so short, what with the loss a couple years ago.
“Registered in May 2001”, indeed!
I got a nice reception in alt.fan.cecil-adams, for all those of you who need an extra outlet for Doping. Talk about fast browsing!
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### Author:  [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/13 "2002-09-20T00:02:32Z")
Oh - my - God. Hell on Earth. I had to resort to playing Solitaire at work.
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### Author:  [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/14 "2002-09-20T00:04:56Z")
Ah…it’s good to be back. Two days without lurking in my favorite message board was certainly painful
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### Author:  [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/15 "2002-09-20T01:54:25Z")
It didn’t seem hellish, but I did feel a twinge of desperation when I noticed the board was down…
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### Author:  [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/16 "2002-09-20T02:02:26Z")
I got my daily fix over at the [G’Dope](http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope) board.
Didn’t miss you lot at all 😛
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/17 "2002-09-20T02:04:10Z")
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
God, I was getting withdrawal jitters!
I remember the mounting horror I was feeling that fateful night… I had posted a(nother) reply to the “authors you just don’t get” thread in Cafe Society, and I noticed that my reply hadn’t bumped the thread up, and it said that I wasn’t the last poster. Yet when I clicked on it, my post was there…
Then I checked early the next morning, and there was a bunch of posts that started threads… and it said “0” replies, but when I opened them, they’d have a dozen or two replies…
Something fishy…
And then… and then… :gasping sob: IT WAS GONE FOR DAYS! :weeps:
But now I’m back, and rejoicing!
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/18 "2002-09-20T02:12:57Z")
I had a blinding headache for 2 days. It was, however, unrelated to the board being down, and I have some loverly Vicodin to ease my pain.
I think the hamsters like me. It was so nice of them to bring down the board so that I wouldn’t miss anything. 😃 😉
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### Author:  [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/19 "2002-09-20T02:44:55Z")
Man, that sucked. I actually had to read for my classes instead of fiddling around on here! When it comes down to the Dope or “The Mabinogion”, I’ll choose Dope every time.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-days-without-the-dope-the-pain-the-pain/128662/20 "2002-09-20T02:54:52Z")
Is… is it over?
Esprix
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